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by Manuel Valenzuela

The creators of American reality, those propagators of charades and mirages who dwell inside the hallways of the Ministry of Truth â€“ otherwise known as the Corporate Media â€“ continue their dance of deception and whitewash, festering in their offices of propaganda, directing the narratives and the epics hundreds of millions of Americans consider truth. Much like the disappearance of warmth giving way to the crispness of cold arrives with each annual changing of leaves, so the remarketing of American reality is altered by the changing faces of circumstance.

Today, this change is the complete disaster that is the occupation of Iraq, an endeavor whose initial fruition could not have taken shape without the blitzkrieg marketed incessantly into every home and mind in America by the Department of Propaganda, the Ministry of Truth and its army of pseudo-journalists.

Storytellers of the American Narrative

The
creators of American reality, those propagators of charades and mirages
who dwell inside the hallways of the Ministry of Truth â€“ otherwise
known as the Corporate Media â€“ continue their dance of deception and
whitewash, festering in their offices of propaganda, directing the
narratives and the epics hundreds of millions of Americans consider
truth.

Much like the disappearance of warmth giving way to the
crispness of cold arrives with each annual changing of leaves, so the
remarketing of American reality is altered by the changing faces of
circumstance. Today, this change is the complete disaster that is the
occupation of
Iraq,
an endeavor whose initial fruition could not have taken shape without
the blitzkrieg marketed incessantly into every home and mind in
America by the Department of Propaganda, the Ministry of Truth and its army of pseudo-journalists.

With
the complete and utter failure of Americaâ€™s experiment with hubristic
imperialism outside its hemisphere, with the complete collapse in
confidence by the people of the government and its leaders, with the
fictional war on terror losing muster, with the American people
questioning the Iraq debacle in growing numbers, the masters and lords
comprising the Establishment have been forced to alter direction and
appease the minds of the masses.

Inside the Ministry of Truth the
decision has been made, therefore, to open the curtains, if only
minimally, to a small manifestation of truth and fact that has for
three years been kept hidden from the people and that sheds light on
the Iraq War and its horrific reality

In the upper echelons of the Establishmentâ€™s pyramid and the corporatist power structure, there has arrived a realization that
Iraq
is and will remain lost, a miserable failure turning more putrid every
day, forever becoming a gash that will not heal, a ghost whose lack of
placidity will for decades haunt the psyche of
America.

The Bush Crusade, once seen by the elite as a harbinger of empire and
hegemonic power, an excursion becoming the genesis of perpetual wealth
and richness, has instead transmuted itself into the greatest strategic
disaster in the history of the Pax Americana. In the span of three
years, Iraq has surpassed Vietnam, in the totality of the
circumstances, as a perpetual burn whose scab will continue to be
pulled off by the shame of what America did to Iraq, by the
embarrassment of such apparent failure, by the geopolitical suicide it
committed in Mesopotamia and by the severed image of the nation in the
eyes of the world.

For
the American masses, meanwhile, a great discomfort at the disaster
unfolding and the failure apparent has been born, as if the growing
number of rotting corpses throughout Iraq have exported their terrible
stench across the Atlantic to the far reaches of America, finally
arriving to wake from the doldrums of comfort and laziness the minds of
millions of American people.

Yet these millions of Americans grow
disquieted not because of the genocide committed by their military, not
because of the death of 655,000, or the displacement of 1.5 million,
but because of the complete failure in not succeeding and winning,
because of the death of almost 3,000 occupying soldiers, for creating a
new memory of debacle, quagmire, defeat.

The
narrative so-meticulously concocted and crafted by the Ministry of
Truth, of an America destined by the Christian deity for greatness,
incapable of defeat, always triumphant in victory, forever carrying the
torch of goodness, chosen to fight the forces of evil, a beacon of
freedom and liberty to the world, has been shown as the sham that it
is, a fantasy laced with the glazed sugar coating of Hollywood
perfection and brainwashed delusions.

The aura of arrogance, the
spirit of invincibility, the confidence of victory, the manifest
destiny of America has taken a severe and humiliating blow at the hands
of a mosaic of â€œrag tag,â€ â€œsub-human,â€ â€œthird-world,â€ â€œdark-skinned,â€
â€œArab and Muslimâ€ resistance fighters, or mujahadeen. The glorious
mirror of fables of American prominence that has for decades been used
to condition and brainwash the masses has been blasted into pieces by a
war of choice and by a cabal of mass murder and criminality.

The
job has thus fallen to the Ministry of Truth and its agents of
propaganda to once again reassemble the many pieces of the smoking
mirror and reconstruct in the mind of the American masses the fantasy
and fiction of an
America
that only exists in the thoughts of the brainwashed and the easily
manipulated.

The mirror of American preeminence, splendor and
greatness that has been used for decades to make servants of the
population must be refurbished, lest the people wake from their
hypnotized stupor to see that the American Dream is but one more
charade, one more level of control over their lives, one more fantasy
injecting fog and haze into myopic eyes, one more mirage whose true
nightmare remains hidden by the warm glow of the television.

The
reality of American life, with its elaborate system of chains and
shackles that clandestinely enslave millions to the elite through the
mechanisms of predatory capitalism, together with the true nature of
Americaâ€™s domination over the planet, destroying Earth, pillaging
resources, ruining nations, birthing enormous suffering, killing
millions, enraging billions, must never be allowed to penetrate past
the firewalls of propaganda that have since birth been implanted inside
the mind of the American masses.

The Delusion of the American Dream
must remain steadfast and firm so that the Earthâ€™s Nightmare may be
allowed to continue. Disastrous endeavors that dispel the
self-aggrandizement inherent in
Americaâ€™s
delusions attack the basic core of the American peopleâ€™s conditioned
minds, creating the mechanisms by which the citizenry begins to
question the fiction they have lived all their lives.

If
leadership can be so incompetent as to give birth to debacle and utter
failure, even with the greatest military and resources the world has
ever known, then how can it govern the rest of the nationâ€™s problems?
If defeat, eventual retreat and loss of nearly 3,000 troops, along with
the maiming, of both body and mind, of countless tens of thousands
more, is the result of an adventure that was supposed to end with
flowers and candy thrown at our feet, signifying a marvelous, heralded
victory proclaiming American greatness, then what has happened to the
only nation blessed by the Christian deity?

What does a humiliating
withdrawal from
Iraq
do the American psyche when years of brainwashing seemingly disallow
the reality now experienced from ever rising? With the Iraq failure â€“
much like the Vietnam example before â€“ firmly impressed upon the
precepts and beliefs the system inculcates into our minds,
contradicting that which we have been taught about ourselves, at odds
with the fictions hammered into our psyche, an audacious challenge to
the constructs of what the state and the corporation say is our reality
is issued, making millions breathe above the murky water of lifelong
conditioning, oftentimes for the first time.

For
in the American narrative, the invincible American military, the most
moral and virtuous in the entire world, fighting evil wherever it may
rise, protecting humanity from evildoers, is not supposed to struggle
against dead-enders, dark-skinned sub-humans or third-worlders. It is
not supposed to get trapped in quicksand or quagmire, fighting for
survival against an army of resistance fighters, most of whom were
simple peasants before occupation.

It is not supposed to become that
which it has been sent to fight, yet transformed into terrorists and
torturers and rapists and mass murderers has it become, dispelling the
fallacies of the Dream we all believe to be real and true. In times of
disaster and unwinnable war, where frustration and discontent grows,
where unsettling facts become the thorns bursting the bubble of
infallibility, the fantasy of what we think we are and the reality of
what we truly are clash in a fiery battle for truth, unleashing in the
mind of the less gullible the beginning sprouts of doubt, forging the
genesis of what is a vortex of uncomfortable epiphanies and awakenings

It
is when the Dream jousts with Reality that awakenings to truth emerge,
as always after violent storms of thought penetrate a brainwashed mind
that refuses to pull its anchors from the draining harbors of control.
Like two armies engaged in hand to hand combat, the Dream conditioned
and Reality experienced meet on the battlefield of thought, creating
volatile and uncomfortable conundrums tearing a mind that has never
been confronted with a challenge to what it thinks is truth and
reality.

In times beset by inevitable questioning of the state and the
so-called leaders of the people, when decisions and policies lead to
defeat and failure and debacle, leading to embarrassment and deep
collective introspection, millions of citizens will confront the dark
Dream, wondering why its tenets and axioms have not held firm, finally
seeing the light, realizing that the Dream they lived no longer
corresponds with the Truth they now see, in the process shattering the
smoke-filled mirrors that surrounds them and becoming aware of what has
been done them, and who is responsible.

Rewriting the Iraq Script

What strategic defeats such as
Vietnam and
Iraq
do is to plant doubt and uncertainty in the minds of Americans
regarding the fictions taught and inculcated from cradle to grave.
What wars that are not won and incompetent occupations accomplish is to
irrigate the fields of slumbering minds with the enriching fluids of
emancipation, if not throughout the population then certainly in the
realities of tens of millions, enough for a movement to grow and a
momentum to infiltrate into the collective conscious of the American
people.

Thus, the danger to the Establishment of the Iraq War disaster
is that if it is allowed to fester and continue hemorrhaging, just as
its momentum dictates that it will continue to do, the American mind
may indeed sprout forth the reason and logic and cognitive thinking
that has been appropriated for decades by the system, creating the
necessary mind shock and thought tempest that might spring in the
masses the enlightenment and renaissance that the elite are frightened
to death of.

This
reality is the danger both to the system that has worked to perfection
for decades â€“ which has served to virtually enslave and make surfs of
the masses â€“ and to the Establishment that is its chief custodian. A
debacle of the Establishmentâ€™s own making, granted life through its own
hubris and incompetence and complete manipulation of the People, the
Iraq War now threatens the very group that collaborated to give it
wings.

The Establishment pushed for war and invasion and occupation,
using its vast tools of propaganda and manipulation to set the country
on the path towards war. The Establishment allowed lies and deceptions
and blatant manipulations of falsity to pass through its barriers and
gatekeepers, granting the green light for complete acceptance by the
People of a war known to be immoral and illegal before it was even
begun.

Today,
what the ruling class of America helped birth has become a Frankenstein
unleashed and unchained, threatening to eviscerate both the American
bubble granting the elite control and its delicate yet omnipresent
Dream that although strongly threaded, remains a fragile concoction of
fantasy, brainwashing and perpetual conditioning, from the cradle to
the grave.

Having become a monster that has taken on a life of its
own, albeit after succeeding in the complete looting of Americaâ€™s
treasury in favor of the elite, though now threatening the interests of
its masters and the power of Establishment, the Iraq War must therefore
be injected with a cocktail of the eliteâ€™s antibiotics, made to be
reborn, recreated and remarketed so as to appease the growing rumblings
and discomfort of the American people, so as to prevent disgruntled
frustration from mutating into vociferous opposition.

Its reality must
be reigned in, controlled and spun according to the interests of the
elite, before it spins out of control, out of the reach of the ruling
classâ€™ tools of mass manipulation.It must be contained before it
spirals beyond even media repair, becoming the spark that launches a
challenge of the system by the people.

For
the Establishment, damage control using its Ministry of Truth and its
army of pseudo-journalists must be meticulous, surgical and rapid, like
a barrage of artillery fired upon the American populace, altering the
perception of a losing adventure, creating a new fiction arranged
within the parameters of the American Dream.

It must be enveloped with
the sugar coating inherent with the American narrative, with the fable
of greatness and virtue so as to reclaim millions of minds lost, so as
to prevent the erosion of millions more. And so the manufacturers of
American reality, those whose job it is to create the perception
millions believe is the real world, have been assigned with the task of
launching a new campaign of smoke and mirrors, trying to reclaim an
eroding Dream and a lost war of choice.

The
repackaging of the debacle in Mesopotamia, which will be done by
spinning and manipulating its realities and truths in such a way as to
maintain dormant the awakened mind of the citizenry, thus preventing
the lower classes from ever rising to challenge power, will of course
be implemented with the Establishmentâ€™s weapons of mass deception and
manipulation, namely, the Corporate media, both on camera and in
print.

In order to freeze a rapidly boiling pot of anger at the war
itself and thereby assuring, at least for a few decades more, the
domination of the many by the few through the hypnotizing catatonia of
the masses, the Establishment will bombard the airwaves and the printed
opinion pieces with the propaganda of a perceived victory in Iraq, of
an honorable handover of power, of competence defined and honor
triumphant. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.

The
Iraqi government will be made the incompetent, the warmongers, the
corrupt, the institution that cannot establish security or peace, even
though it never stood a chance at governance, being born with two arms
fused behind its back, inheriting a debacle of historic proportions
that even historyâ€™s best leaders could not salvage. The new Iraqi
government will be blamed for civil strife, sectarian violence and the
continuing decline in security and standard of living, even though it
was the Americans who sowed what the Iraqi government must now reap.

The
American media, being the always reliable stenographers of the state
and the Establishment, will concoct the fiction blaming the continuing
catastrophe on the fledgling government, for in the American narrative,
where the Dream must stick to its Hollywood script, the American
government, as always saturated and controlled by the elite themselves,
perpetually filled to the rafters with Establishment figures and
minions, will in the end triumph over evil, fighting virtuous and
honorably for a victory that although difficult, is nonetheless real.

In the continuing narrative, the Establishment will be made the heroes
of the epic, competently battling those alien barbarians from Arab
lands, gallantly protecting our security and ways of life, yet
struggling to reign in the few bad apples within its ranks that made
the
Iraq war more difficult than it should have been.

For
the Iraq War will never be seen as illegal, immoral or as the
catastrophe it has become; it will never be seen as a failure created
by the Establishment itself, which of course it is. Erased from
American reality will be the role the elite and its media whores had in
cooking up and serving on a hot plate a war of choice that was always
fated to end in disaster.

The decision made by Americaâ€™s Establishment
will never be given the aura of predestined failure, which it was, but
instead will be marketed as a triumphant struggle made all the more
difficult by the arrogance and incompetence of a few bad apples that
deviated away from the steadfast leadership of the elite.

It will be
said that the war became what is has turned into not for failure to
learn or apply historyâ€™s lessons but because it was badly managed by
who else but by a few bad and seemingly notorious apples who failed to
listen to the sage advice of who else but the Establishment. As with
any
Hollywood
production, fall guys and patsies must be and will be sacrificed, and
this narrative will offer no divergent plots from any previous
incarnation.

The
Iraqi resistance, or mujahadeen, will never be given the credit
objective history will invariably give them, nor the respect earned on
the field of battle. They will never receive commendation for
outthinking, out-planning, outsmarting and outmaneuvering the occupying
forces and its leadership.

The American people will never know Iraqi
freedom fighters outstrategized the occupying military, though
Americaâ€™s
future military leaders certainly will, for they will be made to study
the tactics, thought processes and strategies of the resistance, only
clandestinely acknowledging respect to the mujahadeen by absorbing the
lessons it taught
America in
Iraq. Inside the Ministry of Truth, hard at work implementing the American narrative,
Iraqâ€™s
freedom fighters will have their triumph erased from American memory,
their success never given light, its curtain of reality never lifted
for the masses to see.

Instead,
peasants, sons and fathers, the meat of the Iraqi resistance, at one
time average people like you and me, most fighting for their nation,
their resources, their honor and their way of life, dong what millions
of Americans would do if it was invaded and occupied, will always be
known inside America as Al-Qaeda, as the terrorists we had to fight
over there so we would not have to fight them over here. Of course to
the rest of the world the truth will always be known, the resistance
will always be acknowledged, its victory will always be real.

In
America, however, resistance and freedom fighters will have never
existed in the cities and towns of Iraq, for to the American narrative,
good always triumphs over evil and, since America has the exclusive
monopoly over good, then certainly Iraqi resistance must be labeled as
evil, though international law and opinion would beg to differ.

In the American Dream, since
America is always victorious and good always triumphs over evil, it naturally follows that
America
is never evil and always good, which consequently implies that it never
suffers defeat at the hands of evil. Logically, therefore, its
invasion and brutal occupation, its torture, rape, dehumanization and
mass genocide, its disappearances and false imprisonments, its
pillaging of resources and its looting of Iraqâ€™s finances, its
decimation of Iraqi society, the displacement of 1.6 million Iraqis,
the chaos and anarchy and civil war are all deemed products of good,
for America is the catalyst and oftentimes the enabler of all that has
afflicted Iraq and its people.

The forces fighting against this
supposed evil, trying to rid their land and cities and neighborhoods of
the American pestilence, must therefore be considered evil, and by
consequence defeated by
Americaâ€™s military.

In
the black and white script of the American narrative â€“ since those are
the only colors we are allowed to dream in â€“ the battle of good versus
evil is thus determined by the constructs of an America that cannot do
bad against a force that cannot possibly be considered good, no matter
what the rest of the world thinks.

The easiest way for the Ministry of
Truth to erase the valid guerilla war waged by the Iraqi resistance
against the American occupiers, and erase any thoughts of the people
considering the resistance in positive language, therefore, is to label
freedom fighters as member of Al-Qaeda, the always reliable bogeyman
and barbarian whose usefulness to the Establishment does not seem to
diminish with time.

If
every resistance movement on Earth can be labeled as belonging to a
terrorist organization, imputed to the dreaded image of Al-Qaeda by the
simple act of resisting the wrongs of governance, the devastating
exploitations of the ruling class or the crimes of a nationâ€™s elite,
then naturally the interests of the ruling class can better be
protected.

Conditioning the masses to detest and fear those movements
battling the crimes and corruptions of the worldâ€™s ruling classes â€“
particularly those affiliated with or belonging to the American
Establishment â€“ with those movements oftentimes fighting for the
interests of the masses themselves, succeeds in eliminating a massive
group of potential sympathizers and erodes any potential for fraternity
and solidarity between freedom fighters and the masses.

The
fear and insecurity spawned by the term Al-Qaeda instantly rewires all
circuits in the American mind that connect to logic, reason and
critical thinking, allowing the state and the ruling class to better
control the people. Any valid grievances or causes freedom fighters in
Iraq
or any other nation might have that would excuse their resistance are
thus ignored, becoming a lost echo in the dark chambers of the American
mind.

By marketing Iraqâ€™s freedom fighters as Al-Qaeda terrorists,
when American intelligence has found that only 5 percent of fighters
are from outside Iraq, with only a small fraction of that fraction
sympathetic to Al-Qaeda, the American people, already conditioned like
Pavlovian dogs to tremble in fear at the mere mention of the name, will
instantly develop barricades inside their minds, disallowing any
deviance beyond what they have been brainwashed to believe.

Thus,
a freedom fighter waging guerilla war to expel a brutal occupier will
never be seen as a valid movement. A people forced to expel an
occupying power intent on stealing its resources, dehumanizing its
citizens and destroying its society, oftentimes by no other choice but
by killing and maiming American soldiers, will never be seen in the
American narrative as anything other than terrorists and barbarians and
sub-human, dark-skinned Arabs.

The conditioning into black and white,
good versus evil thinking has been as methodical as it has been
perpetual. The job assigned to the Ministry of Truth is therefore made
much easier.

All Hail the Ministry of Truth

The
eliteâ€™s interests will of course be protected and defended by the
Ministry of Truth and its hordes of presstitutes, for the Corporate
media is and always has been the tool of the Establishment, over the
years having become its undying weapon against the masses, its always
reliable firewall of brainwashing and conditioning. As has always been
the case since the inception of television, he who controls the media
controls the masses, and he who controls television controls American
reality.

Since it controls the perceptions of
Americaâ€™s
reality, and since the Establishment is the master of the Ministry of
Truth, then naturally everything aired, voiced or imaged through the
monitor will inevitably have as goal the protection and expansion of
the ruling classâ€™ interests.

The
Ministry of Truth is the reason why the American people have only
members of the ruling class to elect into higher office. It is the
reason government has for decades furthered the interests of the
Establishment at the expense of the People. It is the reason the
masses vote, without fail, against their own interests, every election
given a choice of the lesser of two evils belonging to the same
two-headed hydra, both almost mirror images of the other, both designed
to protect and expand the power of the elite and the corporate world.

The differences between the two parties are today slim and marginal,
with one mutating towards fascist ideologies and tendencies while the
other, once progressive and liberal, caring for the interests of the
people, has since 9/11 shifted center right, becoming what the
Republican party used to be, a conservative amalgam of ruling class
incompetents.

Because
the Establishment is itself best served through conservative-based
ideology, thriving off the structures of predatory capitalism, through
greed, selfishness and the mechanisms of corporatism, finding
sustenance through the exploitation of the working and middle class,
creating control through organized religion based on primitive thought,
and increasing its grip over America through the perpetual dumbing down
of its people, it follows that the corporate media, the Ministry of
Truth, must itself be molded from conservative ideology.

It must
enable the dumbing down of
America to continue, afflicting each and every new generation of citizens, each
made more ignorant than the previous generation. As such, the fictions
that the Ministry of Truth disseminates and that invariably become
Americaâ€™s reality are conservative-based, right-wing in nature and corporatist in belief.

The
appearance must be made, and the manipulation of ideas must be
engendered, as to make the Peopleâ€™s visions and goals the same vision
and goals sought by the Establishment. The people must be made to
believe that by pursuing and expanding the Establishmentâ€™s interests
their own lives will be made better. This, of course, is but a farce,
for the interests of one group are incompatible and mutually exclusive
of the other.

This explains in part the dominance of conservative
thought by a majority of Americans, and of
America
itself, which includes centrist dogma and much left-of-center ideology,
most of which is considered center-right in the more progressive, and
by consequence enlightened, nations of the world. In fact, most
progressive, liberal ideology in
America
today does not even begin to touch or compare with the mainstream,
progressive, liberal belief system of many western European nations.
Those views would be and are in fact considered radical and extreme in
America, yet they are the evolving ideologies of the worldâ€™s most progressive societies.

Indeed,
where one would expect a more progressive, educated and secular society
(with all three being intertwined and correlated) due to the vast
wealth in resources and human capital, where there is enough treasure
to make enormous investments in education, the complete opposite is
true.
America
is one of the most conservative nations in the developed world, even as
the wealthiest nation of all.

Certainly the systemic conditioning by
the Ministry of Truth over the masses is one reason for this truism.
Certainly the highly influential guidance of the corporate media of
both our society and our culture should be burdened for a major share
of fault in the virtual halt in evolving progressive thought in the
wealthiest nation the world has ever seen. In this conditioning of
the People of conservative thought are the interests of the
Establishment thus protected and furthered, after all.

Inside the Ministry of Truth,
Americaâ€™s
departments of smoke and mirrors are hard at work, busy creating and
re-creating the perception of reality of 300 million American citizens
that must never be allowed to see beyond the bubble of the Dream. It
is in these dark rooms where marketers and public relations gurus and
spin masters and damage control experts and media executives and
political Machiavellis gather, where Americaâ€™s fantasy-laden reality is
engendered and molded, where the strategies and campaigns conditioning
Americans how to think are given life, to be disseminated through the
airwaves and in print, penetrating minds and lives, making us the mere
servant class of the elite.

What can we expect, after all, out of an
institution which has since its inception been financed and supported
by the Establishment? What interests will be furthered and powers
expanded by the corporate media when it is owned and operated by the
corporate world, itself owned by the ruling class? What is to be
expected when the Ministry of Truth is pregnant with the pretenders and
contenders of elitism, the wanna bees of the ruling class, its placenta
bursting with the eliteâ€™s sons and daughters and heirs to the thrones
of propaganda and the Establishment? In the end, what can be expected
when the hand that feeds the Ministry of Truth is part of the same body
whose other hand exploits and oppresses the working and middle
classes?

When
it is understood who the Ministry of Truth works for, whose interests
it has always pursued, then it becomes obvious whose version of reality
we will forever see and be conditioned to accept. The Ministry of
Truth does the bidding for the ruling class, doing its dirty work,
concocting the excuses to wage war, the cataclysmic events needed to
mobilize an entire population, the manipulations needed to create the
citizenryâ€™s acceptance.

The
Iraq
war was allowed to transpire because of the direct role of the Ministry
of Truth and all who work inside its bowels. Its lies and deceptions
were flaunted while its truths and realities were purposefully hidden.
The voices of dissent and debate were made extinct while those of
warmongers and pro-war talking heads were granted an audience. The
entire mechanisms of the corporate media were used to sell war to the
American people, in the end succeeding in making
Iraq and Iraqis the equivalent of Al-Qaeda. After that was accomplished, war was a foregone conclusion.

It
was and still is the Ministry of Truth that terrorizes the masses with
the stateâ€™s propaganda of fear, using every opportunity to wage
psychological warfare against an entire population. It is the Ministry
of Truth that whitewashes and suppresses vital documents and findings
and the voices of whistleblowers, choosing to keep
America in the dark even as the world entire sees the light.

So much of the
Iraq war has been swept underneath a rug of silence, for the Establishment knows that it was video and audio from
Vietnam that gave birth to mass opposition to war. It was the Ministry of Truth that helped end the quagmire in
Vietnam, which is why the
Iraq
war has been lived inside the vacuum of a black hole. The ruling
class, it seems, learned their lesson well, which is why Americans are
clueless about a war that seems to not exist within the confines of our
borders and shores. It is the reason a complete media blackout exists,
with only media embeds acting as the stateâ€™s stenographers allowed to
report a fraction of what is occurring.

The
ruling classâ€™ decision to invade and occupy Iraq, done knowing the
enormous profits and wealth that was about to be created, could not
have happened without the instruments of the Ministry of Truth working
in unison to make sure it indeed happened. If one thinks about it, the
task was monumental, yet it was achieved with triumphant success.

Dissent, protest and debate had to be silenced and erased while the
lies, deceits, fictions and manipulations needed to give life to an
illegal and immoral war were allowed to blossom, without even a whisper
of questioning or debate, without so much as a hint of objectivity.
War was decided upon, and war was what
America
was going to get. The entire engine of propaganda and perception-based
reality was thus greased with the lubricant of Iraqi blood, flowing in
obvious recognition of what transpired inside the Ministry of Truth,
yet made invisible to the millions of eyes dependent on the corporate
media for information.

Collaborators of Catastrophe

For
five years now, the corporate media, along with its legions of
presstitutes, pseudo-journalist hacks, government stenographers,
talking heads, think tank pretenders, editor minions, executive
servants and paid lackeys that comprise the acidic gases inside the
bowels of the Ministry of Truth have collaborated in the giant
productions called the Iraq War and the Psychological Warfare against
the American People.

These individuals are collaborators of
catastrophe, collaborators to war crimes and crimes against humanity,
granting life to genocide, rape, torture and perpetual suffering.
Through their cameras and pens fear has hijacked
America; through their oftentimes idiotic jingoism
America
has mutated to an authoritarian enclave; through their voices the
greatest strategic disaster in American history has been allowed to
fester; through their silence crimes of unspeakable criminality have
been allowed to be perpetrated.

It is because of their whitewashes and
spinning and silent disregard of truth and reality that the nation
finds itself threatened by enemies of democracy, liberty and freedom,
not by enemies from abroad, but by those internal and entrenched, a
much more dangerous cabal of terrorists than anything conjured up by
the Ministry of Truthâ€™s most creative fiction story-tellers.

These
sons and daughters of nepotism, incestuous relationships, favorable
opportunity and ethnic/religious correlation have been promoted into
the Ministry of Truth not because of merit or talent or greatness but
because of who they know, what they are and where they come from.

They
possess the passports of promotion, the keys to becoming gatekeepers,
the signs and stars granting them access beyond the glass ceiling.
They are sons and daughters of privilege and nepotism, born with the
adequate religious background or the royal bloodlines of parentage.
They are hired because they care nothing for reporting truth, lacking
the integrity and honor much more talented individuals possess.

They
are hired because they protect the interests of the mother country and
those of the ruling class, easily selling out to money and greed and
fame, sacrificing truth to the whips of fiction and suppression and
evisceration of reality. They are, quite simply, tools and instruments
set in motion to maintain millions in eternal ignorance while enhancing
the interests of their masters.

For this they have no remorse, nor for
the devastation of truth they help maintain. Their job is the genesis
of American reality, of becoming the front lines against the assault on
the American people, their job the enhancement of a fictional Dream
that keeps millions passive, apathetic and acquiescent. It is this
group of pseudo-journalists, gatekeepers and executives that possess
the magic ticket the rest of the population will never acquire,
regardless of talent, ability and potential greatness.

All that is
needed to join this exclusive club is the right sign, star and lineage,
the right connections, religion and ethnicity, as well as a willingness
to both abandon truth for the Almighty Dollar and imprison the American
people inside the dungeons of concocted reality.

In
the real world, in places where truth prevails and reality thrives,
where actual journalism lives and flourishes, where real democracy is a
reality and not a fantasy, there exists in just one or two or three or
four web pages or websites more talent than the entire lot of Americaâ€™s
corporate media, blossoming to grant sustenance and life back to
editing, writing, reporting and journalism.

It is inside the digital
domain of the Internet where opportunity is still a reality, where
talent and ability still matter, where the love of journalism can be
seen and appreciated. For while the presstitutes have abandoned truth
for greed and integrity for fame, on the Internet the only gains are
love of journalism, love of truth, love of justice and love of
knowledge.

Once
again, through the Internet, We the People have truth, reality, a
voice, true democracy and empowerment. In it we have found a paradigm
where there is no glass ceiling, no discrimination, no nepotism and no
alteration of truth. In this realm, the talent is omnipresent; the
ability mesmerizing; the opportunity as open and as wide as the
Pacific Ocean.
The diversity of opinion and talent and brainpower has exploded onto
the world stage, making pseudo-journalists the laughingstock of
millions.

To those working inside the Ministry of Truth, your gig is
up, the Internet has arrived, taking your viewers, your readership and
your revenues. When you collaborate to lie, deceive and manipulate a
nation towards war, when you ignore truth and criminality as if it does
not exist, when you choose selling out rather than standing up, you
know the end is near. In this world, the Internet is the future; the
corporate media, a thing of the past.

Enslaved
to masters and pimps and sugar daddies, this group of war collaborators
has helped to give birth to the greatest strategic disaster in the
history of the
United States.
Their spin, bull manure, cover-ups, whitewashes, protection of
authority, failure to seek accountability, dissemination of propaganda,
silence in the face of blatant lies and failure to expose truth has
made them all accomplices to what America has done in Iraq and
Afghanistan, not to mention what Israel has done in Palestine and
Lebanon. They are as guilty as the criminals and murderers in office.

Perhaps
sensing the changing winds of discontent, perhaps fleeing from the
losing side of history, perhaps unable to sleep at night guilt ridden
with their failure as journalists, perhaps even sensing the shifting
balance of power, this group of pseudo-journalists has begun to gently
tear apart the bubble of infallibility that once surrounded the Iraq
war. They have begun to offer glimmers of light where darkness once
prevailed.

Only Fox News, it seems â€“ that putrid bastion of fascist
and extremist right wing thought and propaganda â€“ remains lost in the
delusions and deceptions only the thoroughly brainwashed, or
authoritarian stenographers, cling on to. Yet only Keith Olberman has
decided that truth and reality and journalism are worth saving, worth
standing up to. As the nation plummets into despotism, only Olberman
has decided to do his job. Among journalists, he is the one true
patriot; the one true American.

Suddenly,
as if with a wave of the magicianâ€™s wand â€“ or through the gate-keeping
approval of editors and executives â€“ the curtains containing long-held
truths about the Bush Crusade have been allowed to rise, if only
minimally, finally offering
Americaâ€™s
masses glimpses of a war that since its inception has been sequestered
from the beautiful minds of the populace.

A prism of light has finally
been turned on in the vacuum of nothingness that is the locked closet
of
Mesopotamia,
opening up to inspection black corners and unexplored crevices,
allowing glimmers of reality and rays of translucence through into the
eyes of the masses. Today, when it is finally convenient, when it is
finally popular, when it is finally profitable, when the debacle and
the disaster and the failure can no longer be spun or hidden or
manipulated, the Ministry of Truth has shifted course, spinning their
collaboration away, making it disappear from the reality of
America.

The time to protect the system and the Establishment from the People
has arrived, and the Ministry of Truth will in the next few years try
to erase from memory, reality and history its role in the Iraq failure,
not to mention the Establishmentâ€™s disastrous policies over the last
six years. Yet
Americaâ€™s population must remember who it was that lit the path towards war, who it was that heated up the engine of
Americaâ€™s military might. We must remember the failure of journalism and the corporate media at a time when they were most needed.

Journalists
and the corporate media have become collaborators to authoritarianism,
abettors to the coming police state, disseminators of the propaganda
spewed by authoritarians.

No amount of spin or distortion can change
these facts, nor the Ministry of Truthâ€™s role in the war against the
American people. A few bones and crumbs thrown our way in order to
silence and appease us will not work, for we are aware of the guilt of
collaborators to catastrophe.

Today
real news is hidden from view, fake news is given prominence, truth is
suppressed and fiction is promoted. Government and those in power are
protected while those deemed enemy of the state are smeared. Myths and
fables are granted attention while truths and realities are made to
disappear, forever sent to the locked vaults of hidden fact where they
will never see the light of day.

The role of the fascist media is to
protect the fascists, to smear those exposing truths, to ignore
movements seeking truth to criminality, to enable the activities of the
Bush cabal and to grant life to the manipulative mechanisms of the
state. Its role is to keep the masses obedient, ignorant and
subservient to the state, made unaware that every day their rights and
freedoms evaporate, that every day they resemble the servants of the
past and the serfs of the future.

That
is today the role of the corporate media, the Ministry of Truth, using
the television to brainwash and condition the masses, using its
alluring glare to alter the brain function of human beings, from cradle
to grave, using its tools to manipulate and lie to the public, all for
the service of the fascist state, all for the sake of corporatism and
its handlers.

For what is the corporate media, with its legions of
pseudo-journalists, hacks, spin masters, talking heads and untalented
pretty faces dependent on airbrushes and layers of makeup, but the
propagandists of todayâ€™s evolved fascist state? What are the keepers at
the gate, whether from the right or the left, but the sons and
daughters of Joseph Goebbels, bastard children of totalitarian thought,
nursed from the bosom of historyâ€™s greatest propagandists, keeping
authoritarian brainwashing alive and well, becoming the gatekeepers of
tyranny, the destroyers of truth and reality.